name

Arguments:
standard-object

Returns the value of the name property of the argument. The object may
be any Common Graphics object that has a name property. Objects may be
found from their names by passing the names to various finder
functions, such as:

The name should be a symbol, so that finder functions can find the
object by using eq tests on
the name. To ensure that the finder functions find the expected
objects, any objects that co-exist within some context that is passed
to a finder function (such as the parent window passed to find-component) should
always be given mutually unique names (and so any two components on
the same parent window should never have the same name, for example).
If the finder-function has no context (such as find-timer), then the names should
be globally unique among objects of that type (such as all timers).

When an object that has a name property is created without specifying
a :name initarg value, a default name is assigned. In particular, when
placing components onto form windows in the IDE, mutually unique
default names are assigned by appending sequential numbers to the name
of the class of each component (resulting in names such as
:picture-button-1 followed by
:picture-button-2).

Copyright (c) 1998-2012, Franz Inc. Oakland, CA., USA. All rights reserved.Documentation for Allegro CL version 9.0. This page was not revised from the 8.2 page.Created 2012.5.30.